Lead IT Developer

Key Responsibilities: Serve as the senior technical contributor in a cross-border team focused on Loyalty, Mobile App, CRM, and Customer Pickup. Own software design, development, testing, and delivery for cloud-native microservices and web components. Lead and guide code reviews, enforce coding standards, and ensure best practices across development. Work closely with American product, architecture, and Development Manager teams to break down epics, refine stories, and estimate work. Mentor India-based junior developers and enforce engineering best practices in a collaborative, remote-first culture. Proactively communicate blockers, design decisions, and progress across global teams. Write clean, testable, scalable code with strong observability and resilience patterns. Integrate with Salesforce, internal APIs, SQL/NoSQL systems, and customer data platforms. Required Experience & Skills: 10+ years of hands-on development experience. Deep expertise in Java, Spring Boot, RESTful API development, SQL (PostgreSQL, SQL Server), and front-end frameworks (React/Angular). Experience working within an Agile environment alongside U.S.-based product managers, development managers, and designers. Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and unit/integration testing skills. Familiar with CI/CD pipelines, source control (Git), containerization (Docker), and modern deployment patterns. Excellent communication and proactive problem-solving in a remote-first environment. Prior experience working in an offshore/onshore model is highly preferred.